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Title: Evidence for the coexistence of time-reversal symmetry breaking and Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer-like superconductivity in La$_{7}$Pd$_{3}$

Abstract: Time-reversal symmetry breaking (TRSB) with a Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) -like superconductivity occurs in a small, but growing number of noncentrosymmetric (NCS) materials, although the mechanism is poorly understood. We present heat capacity, magnetization, resistivity, and muon spin resonance/relaxation ($\mu$SR) measurements on polycrystalline samples of NCS La$_{7}$Pd$_{3}$. Transverse-field $\mu$SR and heat capacity data show La$_{7}$Pd$_{3}$ is a type-II superconductor with a BCS-like gap structure, while zero-field $\mu$SR results provide evidence of TRSB. We discuss the implications of these results for both the La$_{7}X_{3}$ (where $X=$ Ni, Pd, Rh, Ir) group of superconductors and other CS and NCS superconductors for which TRSB has been observed.
Comments: 12 pages, 7 figures and 2 tables. Accepted in Physical Review B
Subjects: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con); Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
Journal reference: Physical Review B 103, 024507 (2021)
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.103.024507
Cite as: arXiv:2012.09682 [cond-mat.supr-con]
  (or arXiv:2012.09682v1 [cond-mat.supr-con] for this version)

Submission history

From: Daniel Alexander Mayoh [view email]
[v1] Thu, 17 Dec 2020 15:49:59 GMT (260kb)

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